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I guess this is a discussion for the architecture thread, but why do you think this will be cheaper than conventional housing?
It won't as they don't have foundations so aren't ever going to reasonably stack meaning in most urban areas the cost of land will always push in favour of something taller. Not to mention how long term the thing will fall apart and need to be maintained far more or I suspect be far less thermally efficient. Much better "flatpack" solutions where they build up each wall offsite and then can put them together quickly.
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why do you think this will be cheaper than conventional housing?
I may be wrong in my assumption, but I figured that the cost of materials would be no more than an equivalent build, the manufacture/ assembly would be very efficient as it should be set up for production, and it eliminates the cost of the groundworks and on-site labour which takes months as far as I know. However, I'm not knowledgeable about construction at all or the breakdown of the component costs of a conventional house build.
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Some more news on Labour housing policy proposals:
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to be accurate,
The plan was welcomed by the housing charity Shelter, which said the current system meant “an alarming number of people are at the mercy of no-fault evictions”.
Greg Beales, Shelter’s campaign director, said: “Private rents are already expensive, so when you add short-term contracts into the mix, the situation for renters is pretty tough. Right now a family can be turfed out for no reason at any time, and saddled with not only the cost of moving but the huge burden of uprooting their lives.
“It doesn’t have to be this way. We look forward to seeing what the government brings to the table on longer tenancies, and hope they will give renters the security and stability they deserve.”
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" Drug taking and squalor, sex – and they’ll get no state aid…"
https://flashbak.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-hippiedilly-in-1969-9044/
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Thanks, interesting article.
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Not London but Napoli, but I thought it made for an interesting comparison:
Quite astonishing.
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I visited that estate in the very late 90s with a couple I was staying with in Napoli. (My friend had a relative that lived there.) In a city that is famed for dilapidation, Scampia took the biscuit. We remained in touch a for a few years after, sending Cds and things occasionally until I didn't hear from him again. When I visited many years later, I went to his apartment in Quartieri Spagnoli and found out through a neighbour that he was dead and his partner had moved away. Couldn't understand the dialect well enough to decipher what had happened.
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There's been a fairly steady flow of such stories over the years. Quite a few were in Newham. This one's in Harrow.
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An article on the impact of 'Help to Buy'.
No prizes for guessing whether it's increased equality or not.
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Dear oh dear ...
Existing tenants of desirable houseshares can afford to be choosy about who they live with, screening candidates on everything from their dietary preferences to their political beliefs or their star signs. (Unlike gender or sexual orientation, these are not protected characteristics under the law, and so these stipulations aren’t illegal.)
Which is bad news for Capricorns. In April, a New York City housing advert went viral after a prospective applicant was rejected for belonging to that star sign. Megan, a 24-year-old from Brighton, thinks that the no-Capricorn advert is ridiculous because, in her experience, Capricorns make perfectly good housemates. It’s Cancers you need to watch out for. “I had a housemate who was a Cancer, and it wasn’t good for either of us.” A Gemini, Megan’s preference would be to live with Leos, Taureans or Capricorns. She would ban Cancers from moving into her house should a room become available – and probably also Scorpios, if she’s being honest. “It’s like, how many more emotional Cancers or Scorpios will I live with, before I acknowledge it’s not meant to be?”
Some more serious problems in that article, too.
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Sadiq Khan on rent controls:
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Many of these posters concern housing. Plus ça change ...
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This popped up in another thread, seemed kinda relevant
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/15/tresspass-trap-law-land-travelling-people-rights -
Yes, it's definitely part of the same general agenda. All power comes from the land, so let's restrict any rights the landless may have.
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An interesting (temporary) communal squat. There always used to be a couple on the go in London until about a decade and a bit ago.
I somehow doubt they'll stay in there for very long ...
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I'm sure, I don't exactly keep my ear to the ground.
Three weeks isn't bad going considering the kind of building it is/was:
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You can see how completely out of whack the 'housing market' still is when they call out London, with a growth of 4.8% in the first three months of 2021, the UK's 'worst-performing region':
Looking at the regions, Nationwide’s figures for the first three months of 2021 show London was the UK’s weakest performer, with annual price growth falling to 4.8%, down from 6.2% in the final quarter of 2020.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/31/london-worst-performing-region-uk-house-prices-fall
A cooling in the 'housing market', which is ridiculously over-speculated, overvalued, and a symptom of a weak, unbalanced economy, is only to be welcomed, slight though it is at 0.2%.
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A good article about the bonkersiosity of the housing market and associated 'policy' (read: corrupt action against the public interest):
To put it bluntly, the proceeds of economic growth in the UK now flow entirely to asset-owners – including homeowners. Study after study has shown that in the decade after the financial crisis, average real wages simply stopped rising – something that had never happened in two centuries of industrial capitalism.
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Consider what a bizarre model of “growth” has governed Britain since the crash – where the value of a home rises by roughly 5% every year, but the value of an hour’s work rises not at all, year after year. What does this do to us, psychologically and culturally?
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I guess this is a discussion for the architecture thread, but why do you think this will be cheaper than conventional housing?
This is a continuation of a theme that has been going on for decades - the counterweight hinges they've developed are amazing, but I'm not sure it solves many of the other issues.